He is already seeking to impose a cap on local property taxes, a priority that teachers fiercely oppose because it could deprive schools of revenue.
Judge Treu accurately identifies a few key issues in his decision: administrators may struggle to identify quality teaching in fewer than two years, layoffs may deprive schools and students of stellar teachers, and teacher employment law may fail to grant teachers an appropriate amount of due process.
In the year since Macklin became head of this extremely deprived school, in a town with a long history of segregation and tension, there has not been a single racist incident among her pupils.
The Scottish government should have a target of 10% of the most deprived school pupils getting places at the most selective, "ancient" universities, the commission recommended.
Of those, 83% were considered deprived schools, with more than 40% of pupils on free school meals.
Education chiefs wanted to secure extra federal money for their deprived schools by hitting improvement targets, the court heard.
By evaluating only raw test scores and not the context of those scores and their improvement over time, the government deprives schools of much-needed funds and educators.
The idea was also criticised by Teach First, an educational charity much praised by the government, which places graduate teachers in deprived schools.
Even without it, more deprived schools are already funded at a higher rate and, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, funding has become more progressive since 2005-06.
The intervention of philanthropist Paul Hamlyn inspired a markedly more activist approach to audience development, with deprived schools and then Sun readers targeted for subsidised opera tickets.
